of grand rapids



A. ROSENTHAL.

' LABEL.

APPLlCATlON FILED JUNE Z, 15!].

1,321,477. Patented Nov. 11, 1919.

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tlNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ARTHUR ROSENTI-IAL, OF GRAND RAPLID S, MICHIGAN, ASSIGNOR TO THE ROSE PATCH &

LABEL 00., OF GRAND RAPIDS, MICHIGAN.

' ABEL.

Specification of Letters Patent. Patented NOV. 11, 1919.

Application filed June 2, 1917. Serial No. 172,499.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ARTHUR RosENTHAL,

a citizen of the United States, residing at -Grand Raplds, 1n the county of Kent and State of Michigan, have invented newand useful Improvements in Labels, of which the following is a specification.

The present invention relates to labels to be sewed on garments and the like-in order to distinguish by the labels markings the garments to which the labels are thus attached; and the object of this invention is to provide such a label on which the markings may be plainly-and permanently dis played and which is stiff enough to be properly fed by suitable feeding means to the sewing mechanism.

Such labels have hitherto been made of a single piece of suitable material, as teX- tile fabric. If this fabric is thin enough for the ink of the printed markings thereon to penetrate through the material (as is desirable to secure the permanency of the markings), the label is likely to be crumpled by the feeding means of the machine whereby it is sewed to the garment, an example of such feeding means being shown in United States Patent No. 1,223,617 to me. Attempts have been made to obviate thi difficulty by starching the material to give it the requisite stiflness for feeding, but this is objectionable because the starch prevents the ink from penetrating the fabric suiiiciently, and besides that, the starch and the printing on the starched surface wash out in the washing of the garment. Other attempts have been made to overcome the difliculty by making the label of coars fabric; but the large size of the thread of such fabric do not provide a sufficiently smooth flat surface to receive a clear and plain printing impression.

I obviate all these difficulties by providing a label composed of two pieces or members of suitable material, as textile fabric, the inner member supplying the requisite stiffness and the outer member affording the surface for receiving the printed or written markings.

In the accompanying drawings:

Figure 1 shows in perspective a portion of a continuous strip from which my labels are severed, as by the machine shown in United States Patent No. 1,211,489 to M. Petrocchi Fig. 2, is a bottom plan View of one of my labels; 1

Fig. 3 is a transverse section of the same taken'on line 33 of Fig. V

Fig. at is a top plan or face'view of the same; and y Fig. 5 is a transverse central section of one of my label in which the sides of both members are folded, and taken on a plane corresponding to line 55 of F ig. 2.

The continuous strip 1 is composed of an inner member 2 of textile fabric, and an outer member 8 of such fabric, whose sides t are folded over" the. inner member as shown. This continuous strip is cut into label lengths whose ends 5 are folded over and pressed down on the under side of the labels,-all as by the machine shown in said Petrocchi patent,-the completed label 6 be ing shown in top plan or face view with the printed marking Rose thereon in Fig. 4, and in bottom plan view in Fig. 2. The label is now sewed on the garment as by the machine shown in U. S. Patent #1,199,822. The inner member 2 of the strip and label is stiffer than the material of the outer member 3; thus the inner member may be made of material inherently stiffer, as percale, while the outer member is made of such material as muslin; the threads of the inner members material may be larger and coarser than those of the outer member; and the inner member may be stiffened by a stiffening substance applied thereto, in which case, if said sub stance is soluble, as starch, it will wash out when the garment i washed, whereupon the label will become more flexible, as is desirable in garments.

In Fig. 5 the sides 7 of the inner member 2 are folded, and over its edges thus formed, the sides 4 of the outer member 3 are folded; such folding of both said members may be done at one operation.

I claim:

1. A laundry marking tag or label adapted to be sewed to a garment of the class adapted to be stitched to a garment or the like and to receive indicia, comprising an unstifl'ened outer member of textile fabric adapted to receive indicia, and a stiffened inner member of textile fabric, the stiffening for the inner member being such that it is removed by washing, the outer member being wider than the inner and its longitudinal edges extending beyond the longitudinal edges of the inner member being folded, the ends of both members being folded together rearwardly thereon whereby the members are retained in assembled relation prior to attachment to the article to be marked. 7 I

2. A laundry marking tag or label of the class adapted to be stitched'to a garment and to receive identifying indicia compristhrough both members.

3. A laundry marking tag or label of the Copies of this patent may be obtained for class adapted to be stitched to a garment or the like and to receive identifying indicia, comprising an outer member adapted to receive identifying indicia, and an inner stiffened member, the stiffening for the inner member being such that it is removed by washing.

4.1K marking tag or label comprising an outer member of flexible fabric adapted to receive identifying indicia and an inner stiffening member of flexible fabric, said members being retained in assembled relation for attachment to the article to be marked by folds in the edges of the members whereby the tag may be stitched on all its edges to the article to be marked by stitches through both members and the stiffening member completely inclosed.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

7 ARTHUR ROSENTHAL.

five cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

